Leopold Staff

At 24,167 gross tons, Leopold Staff is the 23,557th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 4.0 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 1,085 multi-purposes held here, it ranks 15th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 2,998 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 11,901 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Netherlands (170 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is SLKB Komarno – Slovak Shipyard Komárno, with 78 hulls on record.

Leopold Staff was built in 2004, making it 22 years old. It is one of 1,485 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 17,188 GT; within it this ship is the 621st largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 199.8 m overall, Leopold Staff is 109.8 m longer than the 90.0 m median for multi-purposes on record, with a beam of 27.8 m and a draft of 11.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9272228 this registry holds 41 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2004.

Its IMO number, 9272228, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 7×5 + 2×4 + 2×3 + 2×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.